{"id":58731,"date":"2019-08-20T22:10:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T22:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58731"},"modified":"2019-08-20T22:10:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T22:10:13","slug":"when-my-siblings-and-i-compare-birth-certificates-for-the-first-time-we-discover-that-four-of-us-have-white-listed-under-race-and-one-has-negro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58731","title":{"rendered":"When my siblings and I compare birth certificates for the first time, we discover that four of us have \u201cWhite\u201d listed under \u201cRace,\u201d and one has \u201cNegro.\u201d We\u2019re all interracial children from the same parents, who died before we could ask them about this enigma."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When my siblings and I compare birth certificates for the first time, we discover that four of us have \u201cWhite\u201d listed under \u201cRace,\u201d and one has \u201cNegro.\u201d We\u2019re all interracial children from the same parents, who died before we could ask them about this enigma. I proudly accept being <em>\u201cNegro\u201d\u2014<\/em>African-American\u2014although I embrace my full heritage and keep a healthy sense of humor whenever anyone asks, <em>\u201cWhat are you?\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr. Ruth L. Baskerville, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58714\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">They Call Me \u201cNegro\u201d<\/a>,\u201d <em>Embrace Race: Raising A Brave Generation<\/em>, August 18, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.embracerace.org\/blog\/they-call-me-negro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.embracerace.org\/blog\/they-call-me-negro<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my siblings and I compare birth certificates for the first time, we discover that four of us have \u201cWhite\u201d listed under \u201cRace,\u201d and one has \u201cNegro.\u201d We\u2019re all interracial children from the same parents, who died before we could ask them about this enigma. I proudly accept being \u201cNegro\u201d\u2014African-American\u2014although I embrace my full heritage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30139,30137,30136,30147,30140,30138],"class_list":["post-58731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-dr-ruth-baskerville","tag-dr-ruth-l-baskerville","tag-embrace-race","tag-embrace-race-raising-a-brave-generation","tag-ruth-baskerville","tag-ruth-l-baskerville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58733,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58731\/revisions\/58733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}